Celebrating Valentine’s Day – Love your Spa

Love your Spa by LOUIS GERKE – THE RIPPLE EFFECT Diarise LNE Spa Conference 2020 – 26 & 27th July – The Houghton Hotel, Johannesburg As presented at the Spa Conference: Register on-line: www.lesnouvelles.co.za Parents love their children, while at times not loving their behaviour. We can love our spouses or partners, while finding certain…

Aesthetic Supplements

Aesthetic Medicine is concerned primarily with addressing the visible expression of the cellular ageing. It stands to reason then, that the primary interventions used should work to arrest or mitigate the ageing and degenerative process. A secondary consideration is local skin conditioning, with enhancement of the production of skin tissue components. The following is a…

Marketing Anti-ageing in your Spa

By Duncan Pape – BY THE DESIGN Biogerontology is the study of slowing down or reversing the process of ageing, to extend both the maximum and average lifespan of a human or animal. We, in the industry, refer to this study as anti-ageing. The most common perception is that anti-aging is a way of getting…

Antibiotics and the Skin You’re In

By Trevor Steyn – Esse Cosmetics If you’re reading this, then I’m pretty sure that you’re human. I’m equally certain that you aren’t entirely human. Life on earth is divided into 6 kingdoms … Plants, Animals, Fungi, Protists, Bacteria and Archaea. All of these kingdoms, except plants, colonise your skin. Let’s take a quick look…

5 Ways to Balance Inner Peace

Inner peace is a most valuable commodity. We are constantly searching for peace, often defining peace as the absence of stress – but what we are really doing is searching for relief from our problems. The truth is, we can still have problems and be at peace! Peace is not a passive state where everything…

Keep your Spa Brand Top of Mind

By Duncan Pape – BY THE DESIGN When you need award wining marketing for your spa, you want your brand to be the first thing your ideal customer thinks about. You want to be the leader in your industry, the go-to expert, a trusted name in your industry…in other words, you want your brand to…

Building an Award Winning Team

By Francisco Garcia In order to build and maintain the best spa team from an HR perspective, the most important aspect is to not only hire employees but “business partners” and treat them as such, especially in this day and age with Generation Y and Millennials being the fundamental part of the new employees joining…

Eight Wellness Trends for 2017

The Global Wellness Summit (GWS) has released its eight trends to look out for in 2017 in spa and wellness, identifying saunas, architecture, art, beauty, mental wellness, wellness for cancer, inequality and – whisper it – silence as influential themes in 2017.   This year’s report stretches to 50 pages and marks the 14th edition…

Our Relationship with Disruption

By Rich Simmonds [ speaker . consultant . author . father ] Some of you may have heard this statement before ‘Life is Relationship’ and the more we understand this, the better we can potentially live our lives. The initial idea that we are social beings created for community living suggests that we are meant…

Spa Design – The Art of Looking Sideways

By Corli Schoeman – Niche Spa Consulting – as featured in Les Nouvelles Esthetiques Spa Magazine – Issue 70.  To subscribe: www.lesnouvelles.co.za   “Spa design is about creating a sense of place, one that can be otherworldly but also rooted in the location, the culture and customs.” – Michael Bender If you want to see…